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Biography

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wall received a limited
schooling. Learned the trade of ropemaking and worked as a
journeyman. He became a manufacturer of rope. He moved to Kings
County, Long Island, New
York, in 1822. Trustee, commissioner of highways, supervisor,
member of the board of finance, and commissioner of waterworks of
Williamsburg (now a part of New York City). He served as mayor of
Williamsburg in 1853. He was one of the incorporators and for a
number of years president of the Williamsburg Savings Bank. He was
also one of the founders of the Williamsburg City Bank (later the
First National Bank) and of the Williamsburg Dispensary.

Wall was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress
(March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863). He declined to be a candidate for
renomination in 1862. He served as delegate to the Loyalist
Convention at Philadelphia in 1866. He died in Brooklyn, New York, April 20, 1872 and was
interred in Greenwood Cemetery.